Frederick ansley



(No Model.)

F. ANSLEY.

FOLDINGBED. No. 456,932 Patented Aug. 4, 1891.

WITNESSES:

3 Attarney.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK ANSLEY, OF BROOKLYN, ASSIGNOR TO THE STANDARD FOLDING BED COMPANY, OF NEIV YORK, N. Y.

FOLDING BED.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 456,932, dated August 4, 1891.

Application filed December 3,1890- Serial No. 373,898. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: folded into the standard. Fig. 2 is a similar Be it known that I, FREDERICK ANSLEY, a side elevation showing the bed-frame pulled citizen of the United States, residing in down and locked. This view shows a part of Brooklyn, Kings county, New York, have inthe near extension-post broken away to dis- 5 5 Vented certain Improvements in Folding close the counterbalancing-spring. Figs. '3 Beds, of which the following is a specificaand 4 are detail views of the locking-bar and O l. l its keeper-stud on a large scale. Fig. 3 is a My invention relates to improvements in face view, and Fig.4 a section. Fig. 5 is a that class of folding beds wherein the bed detail view illustrating a slightly-difierent 6o [0 frame is wholly or in part counterbalanced construction of the locking device.

by springs, and more especially to that divi- A represents the standard as a whole,and sion of such class in which the bed-frame is B the bed-frame as a whole. suspended in the standard by links or chains, a are the extension-posts of the standard, as distinguished from those in which the bedand a the casters at the rear edges of the I5 fralneis mounted to turn on pivots. In such same.

beds the standard is usually provided with The bed-frame is suspended by chains 0, large casters, in order that the bed may be which play over pulleys on the inner faces of conveniently moved about over the floor, and the extension-posts,and is counterbalanced by one pair of these casters is arranged at the suitable springs c. The legs I) atthe foot 20 rear edges of the extension-posts of the standof the bed-frame may be made to fold up and ard. Consequently, when the bed-frame is unfold automatically by the well-known dedown, if an attempt is made to move the bed vice illustratedin theabove-mentionedpatent. by lifting the foot of the bed-frame a little All of the above features are old and well and then drawing the bed along the obstrucknown, and I make no claim to them herein. 25 tion offered by the carpet to the free move- When the bed-frameis pulled down, as rement of the casters is apt to cause the stand presented in Fig. 2, the standard is in someard to topple over backward and fall on the what unstable equilibrium, owing partly to bed-frame. Indeed, there is danger of this the rolling support afforded by the casters a. occurring when one is lying in the bed If the upper part of the standard be now 0 should any one apply a slight pushing presspushed from the direction indicated by arrow ure to the front of the standard. In this case x in Fig. 2, the casters a will roll forward in the standard turns on the suspension-point the direction indicated by arrow y in said or pivot-point of the bed-frame, the top of figure and the standard will fall backward the standard turning backward and the base on the bed-frame. I obviate this difficulty 8 5 5 moving forward, the rear casters rolling on by providing the bed with a locking-bar O,

the floor,and thus facilitating thecatastrophe. which is pivotally attached to the extension- The object of my invention is to cure the post of the standard at (Z and plays in and defect above described, and thus make the through-a keeper e, secured to the side rail 12 bed perfectly safe; and the device which I of the bed-frame B. In this bar 0 is formed 4o employ is, in the main, automatic in its aca notch f. (Seen bestin Figs. landS.) This tiOIJ- notch is so placed on the locking-bar that In the accompanying drawings, illustrating when the bed-frame is pulled down said my invention, I have shown it applied to a notch will engage the lowerend post or stud folding bed of substantiallythe same general e of the keeper 6, and thus forms with the 9 5 45 construction as that illustrated in the patent horizontal bed-frame and vertical standard granted to Hayes, Ansley,and Eschenbrenner, a triangular truss, of which the bar 0 is the Serial No.354,911,datedDece1nberl6,1890. oblique member. The weight of the bar C Figure 1 of the drawings is a side elevawill suffice to keep the notch .f in engagetion of such a bed embodying my improvement with the stud e of the keeper or some 5c ments. This view shows a part of the near other part of the same, and when the bed is eXtension-postbroken away audthe bed-frame to be folded it is only necessary for the operator to raise the free end of the bar until the notch is disengaged and to hold it elevated until the bed-frameis lifted a few inches. The keeper will slide along the bar away from the notch, and the bar may be then disregarded and the bed-frame folded up.

The position of the locking-bar when the bed-frame is folded is clearly illustrated in Fig. 1. It occupies the space between the side rail of the bed-frame and the extensionpost of the standard. When the bed-frame is pulled down, the notch f engages the stud of the keeper automatically as soon as the frame reaches a horizontal position.

The object of the keeper 6 is merely to guide the bar and keep its free end up close to the rail b and the stud 6 forms a part of the keeper. Therefore I call the device a keeperstud The shoulder f, which engages the stud, is most conveniently formed by notchiug the bar 0; but it may be formed on the bar in any known Way. For example, Fig. shows a simple headed stud e to be driven into the side rail and a shoulder f on and projecting from the edge of the bar 0. In this construction the broad head of the keeper-stud serves as a keeper to guide the bar.- I place the keeper-stud on the rail near the foot of the bed in order that, when the bed is down, as in Fig. 2, the free end of the bar 0 may be near the foot of the bed and within easy reach of the person who is folding the bed; butthis arrangement is not essential.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- 1. The combination, with the standard of a folding bed, the counterbalancing-spring for the bed-frame, and the bed-frame suspended in said standard and provided with alockingstud, of a locking-bar O, pivotally attached at one end to the standard below the level of the turned-down bed-frame and provided with a shoulder f adapted to engage said locking-stud on the bed-frame when the latter is turned down, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. The combination, with the standard of a folding bed provided with casters a 011 its.

FRED ERICK ANSLEY.

Witnesses:

HENRY CONNETT, J. D. CAPLINGER. 

